Dog treats and mixers was the most dynamic category in dog food in retail volume terms in 2022 and this pattern looks set to continue through 2023. While these products have been impacted by the inflation demand has remained strong. Until a few years ago,…
Pet care in Italy has changed a lot in the three years since the start of the pandemic. Italy was hit by elevated inflation and high energy prices in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with the effects of this continuing to be felt in 2023. Desp…
The strong growth of pet products in Ireland continues to be primarily fuelled by new innovations. A growing array of interesting and sophisticated pet products are in demand from customers, primarily in the form of toys and pet healthcare products. CBD o…
The popularity of keeping small mammals continues to grow. Irish like small mammals especially, as they require little attention, are fun to play with, while also being more human-like than birds, fish or reptiles, due to being mammals. Fish are rarely tr…
The price of meat, fats, and cereals, which are key ingredients in many types of cat food has continued to rise in 2023, along with the cost of fuel and energy and other supplies. This increase in production costs has inevitably translated into a rise in …
Amid growing pet ownership in response to the pandemic, dog owners increasingly want to apply their own dietary habits and values to their animals and are willing to pay more to do so. This has led to the launch of more plant-based dog food and dog treats…
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 led to a dramatic increase in the cost of raw materials and fuel in Ireland, with this also impacting pet care products. These factors continue to put upward pressure on production costs for pet care in 2023 whic…
Pet owners are continuing to deep dive into the quality and production of all their pets’ products, with consumer awareness of the chemical content within some pet healthcare products such as flea/tick treatments, resulting in gradual declines for the lat…
During the pandemic, and boosted by the strong emotional connection that many owners developed with their pets, demand for pet healthcare significantly grew. This situation was also boosted by the uncertainty of when the impact of the pandemic would wane …
Premiumisation in pet care continues in the US, showing resilience despite constricted consumer wallets. While consumption in volume terms is being impacted across various categories, retails value sales continue to grow. Accepting the role of inflationar…
After receiving an extraordinary boost in 2020 following the emergence of the pandemic and subsequent home seclusion, which resulted in a surge in pet adoptions, growth rates of pet care have since noticeably slowed in Chile. The categories that mainly dr…
With pet populations seeing slowdowns across the board, growth of bird, fish, and reptile populations are particularly slow, while the small mammal population in the US is declining, as consumer education on proper pet care exposes them to the fiscal real…
Other pets such as birds, fish and reptiles increasingly compete with electronic entertainment in local households, which is extremely popular in the era of technology and video games, with younger generations having more frequent access. Therefore, ownin…
As premiumisation in the pet space continues, premium diets are enjoying normalisation as the industry standard. Despite inflationary pressures, dog owners are continuing to invest in their pets’ premium diets, with wet dog food growth outpacing that of d…
Pet care has a strong presence of imported products, and dog food is no exception. Most of the important players in Chile (except for Nestlé Chile, which has its own factories in the country) are facing ongoing challenges triggered by the global economic …
Despite population slowdowns across all pet categories, the cat population has shown the highest growth rates in the US. Demonstrative of shifting consumer lifestyles and preferences, cats have solidified their position as a serious competitor to dogs as …
Dogs and cats are generally considered to have very different characteristics. On the one hand, dogs have a greater capacity to adapt when their owners change their food (a situation which has become more frequent due to inflationary pressures). This adap…
Pet healthcare, dominated by specialist players who are not present in other pet care categories (with the exception of Best Friend Group), is by far the most dynamic category in pet products, recording double-digit annual growth in current retail value s…
After a strong performance in 2020, the growth rate of small mammal/reptile food in retail volume terms slowed significantly in 2021 and continued to lose momentum during 2022. This slowdown correlated with the declining population of small mammals and re…
Premium private label is now expanding faster in cat food in Finland. Following the success of SMAAK dog food, the brand introduced a cat food range that is locally sourced and produced.
Euromonitor International's Cat Food in Finland report offers a com…